It also depends on when you sell it. Say 5+ years down the road where SSD becomes a norm, any pc with non SSD will be a hard sell. I had the experience when I tried to sell a good CRT monitor after everyone moved onto LCDs.

SSD will go down in price in the following years for sure, so your resale value will be nowhere the % of your paid price with fusion. That being said, I still went with the 1TB SSD. I struggled for days thinking about 512 GB SSD vs 3TB Fusion. But then I realized I had money and just went with the 1TB SSD, and I feel pretty great about that choice.

So yeah if you're optimizing for resale value I think the 2 TB Fusion drive will be worth way more than the 256 GB SSD, especially because a lot of people want more space on their desktops.

Those who know their Macs won't care if it has a large storage spinner or small SSD because most likely they will replace either of them.
The average Mac user most likely doesn't know the difference between the two but the 2TB space will sound better to them.

Those who know their Macs won't care if it has a large storage spinner or small SSD because most likely they will replace either of them.
The average Mac user most likely doesn't know the difference between the two but the 2TB space will sound better to them.

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Replacing an internal storage on a recent iMac is not a trivial task, so most likely no users will even look into such option.

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